Reading Room 2017

but the point was that i was going to ask myself what i was doing here in several senses one of these senses is "what am i doing here?" in this kind of ambience? but what is "this kind of ambience" – David Antin, "Talking at the Boundaries"

To keep his books Cosimo constructed a kind of hanging bookcase; sheltered as best he could from rain and nibbling mouths. But he would continuously change them around, according to his studies and tastes of the moment, for he considered books as rather like birds and it saddened him to see them caged or still. – Italo Calvino, "The Baron in the Trees"